Shaw, Lucinda Frances (‘Lucy’) (sister): birth 7; appearance 25–6; musical accomplishments 26, 30; joins mother in London 30–1; and Lee 14, 26, 38, 40; joins Carl Rosa Opera Co. 40; on Shaw’s lack of employment 49; touring 68; does not go to father’s funeral 73; on May Morris 130; and Shaw’s relationship with Jenny Patterson 143; portrayed in You Never Can Tell 218; her marriage 253, 254; touring with Dorothy 253; resented by Shaw 253–4; in Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien in America 256; and Charlotte 261; provided for by Shaw 262, 421, 478; produces Miss Julie 361; and Shaw’s success 422; divorces Butterfìeld 422; relationship with mother 422; and mother’s death 423, 478; and Mrs Patrick Campbell 478–9; illness and death 9, 479–80; mentioned 36, 41, 61
Shaw, Mabel, Shaw to 646
Shaw, Richard Frederick (Uncle Fred) 3, 27, 36
Shaw, Robert (uncle) 2
Shaw, Robert (Lady Astor’s first husband) 563
Shaw, Captain William 2
Shaw, William Bernard (Uncle Barney) 3
Shaw Gives Himself Away see Shaw: Works
Shaw Memorial Fund 794, 805, 807, 808, 810
Shaw’s Corner (Ayot) 794
Shaw Society 758, 762, 774, 799, 801
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 23, 43, 51, 126, 179, 701
The Cenci 75, 145, 166, 189, 190
‘The Witch of Atlas’ 273
Shelley Society 75, 190
Shelving, Paul 511, 529–30
Sheringham, George 529
Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, The see Shaw: Works
Shine, J. L., Shaw to 310–11
Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings see Shaw: Works
Sidgwick, Henry 111
Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The see Shaw: Works
Sinclair, Upton 631
Sinn Fein 472
Sitwell, (Sir) Osbert 536–7
Six of Calais, The see Shaw: Works
Six Point Group 772
Sixteen Self Sketches see Shaw: Works
Skidelsky, Robert (Lord): Oswald Mosley 541
Slivinski (pianist) 139
Smedley, Agnes 653, 654
Smeeth, Joseph 20
Smith, C. Aubrey 295
Smith, Dorothy 646
Smith, Greenhaugh, Shaw to 401
Smith, Margaret (née Cashin) 676, 754, 788
Smith, Stevie 45, 411
Smith-Barry, Arthur 244
Smith Elder & Co. (publishers) 50, 71
Smith’s (W. H.) 704
Smoker, Barbara 798–805 passim
Smollett, Tobias: Peregrine Pickle 440–1
Smuts, General Jan 641, 642
Snow, Edgar 631
Sobieniowski, Floryan 534, 569; Shaw to 119, 575, 807
Social Democratic Federation 74, 76–7, 101, 105
Socialist League 74, 76, 77, 86, 128, 145
Society of Authors 376–7, 383, 454
Somerville, Edith 359, 748
Soong Ching Ling (‘Madame Sun’) 653, 654, 658
Soper, Donald (Baron) 799
Sopwith, (Sir) Charles R. (Public Trustee) 804, 805
South Africa, the Shaws in 640–5, 646–7
Southam, Ethel 59
Spare, Austin, Shaw to 83
Sparling, Henry Halliday 128–31, 149, 179
Speaker, The 278, 336
Spencer, Percival 355
Spender, (Sir) Stephen 632
Sponnek, Count 244
Spurling, Hilary 205
Squire, J. C. 452, 459; Shaw to 693
Stage Society 168, 215, 261, 267, 277, 290, 294, 307–8, 309, 381
Stalin, Joseph 619, 626–8, 633, 658, 701, 738, 740
Standard, The 391
Stanford, (Sir) Charles Villiers 137–8
Eden 136–7
Shamus O’Brien 256
Stanislavksy, Konstantin 337, 624
Stanley, H. M.: In Darkest Africa 273
Star, The 110, 112, 113, 149, 469, 263, 729, 795; Shaw as music critic (‘Corno di Bassetto’) of 121, 124, 131–6, 253, 254
Star of India 649
Stead, W. T. 116, 120, 164–5, 184, 224
Stevenson, Frances 755
Stevenson, Robert Louis 48, 69, 281
Stewart, (Sir) Robert Prescott 28, 29
The Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 29
Stopes, Marie, Shaw to 9
Story, Thomas Waldo 552
Strachey, John 632
The Coming Struggle for Power 632
Strachey, Lytton 117, 456, 679
Strang, William 354
Strange, Stanislas 295
Straus, Oscar: The Chocolate Soldier 173, 295, 440
Strauss, Richard 606
Strindberg, Johann August 360–1, 775, 812
Lycko Pers Resa 361
Married 360
Miss Julie 360, 361
Strobl, Sigismund de 354, 355, 782
Strong, Anna Louise 631
Studdy, H. E. M. 366
Sudermann, Hermann 188, 729
Magda 195
Sullivan, Sir Arthur 137
Sullivan, Barry 34–5, 199
Sun, Madame see Soong Ching Ling
Sunday Times 335, 492, 682, 805, 807
Sussex Daily News 392
Sutro, Alfred 190; Shaw to 450, 569
Swan Sonnenschein (publishers) 72
Swedish-English Literary Translators’ Association 812
Sweet, Henry 58, 61, 364, 435, 437
Swerling, Anthony 360
Swift, Jonathan 1, 120, 457, 458, 645
Gulliver’s Travels 559
A Modest Proposal 53
Sykes, Christopher 564
Sykes, Dr 236
Synge, John Millington 305–6
In the Shadow of the Glen 302
Riders to the Sea 302
Tagore, Rabindranath, Shaw to 649
Tallents, (Sir) Stephen 740
Tate, Nahum 716
Tawney, R. H. 704
Tennant, Charles 619
Terpsichore see Pertoldi, Ermina
Terriss, William 221, 223, 224
Terry, Ellen: marriages 196, 197, 587; children see Craig, Edith and Craig, Gordon; ‘conquers’ Shaw 196; and Irving 197, 199, 203, 274–5, 276–7; reviewed by Shaw 197; and Man of Destiny 196, 197–9, 200–1; their correspondence 197–8, 202–3, 205–6, 249–50, 273, 420, 587–90; relationship with Shaw 202–3, 211, 224, 240, 276, 716; and Shaw / Irving quarrel 206–11; and Janet Achurch 211, 215; and Shaw and her daughter 214–15, 247, 278; as Lady Cicely in Captain Brassbound’s Conversion 274, 275–6, 278–9; last years 586–7; death 586; mentioned 25, 212–13, 259, 417, 459; Shaw to 8–9, 93, 206, 209, 210, 220–6 passim, 237, 245, 246, 249, 252, 273, 280
Theatre Guild, New York 491, 509, 510, 528–9, 638–9, 684, 694, 707
Thesiger, Ernest 639
Thomas, Brandon: Clever Alice 147
Thorndike, (Dame) Sybil 522–3, 524, 684, 705, 737
Three Plays for Puritans see Shaw: Works
Time magazine 741
Time and Tide 580
Times, The: dramatic criticism 278, 336, 381, 388, 389, 464, 465, 575, 591, 639, 682, 706, 718; Shaw’s letters (and rejections) 233, 236, 357, 383, 471, 514, 634, 734, 737, 751; on Einstein’s theory of relativity 610; on Shaw’s birthdays 777, 787; reports on spelling reform 801, 803, 804; mentioned 444, 481
Times Literary Supplement 478, 584, 761
To-Day (magazine) 71, 72, 120
Todhunter, John: A Comedy of Sighs 171
A Sicilian Idyll 140
Toller, Ernst 631
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich 361, 386, 387; Shaw to 386 The Power of Darkness 379
Tomlinson, H. M. 109–10
Tompkins, Laurence 544, 547–8, 549, 550, 551, 553, 554, 756
Tompkins, Molly 544–5, 546–9, 550–4, 571, 755–6; Shaw to 546–7
Tompkins, Peter 544, 755–6, 761
Too True to be Good see Shaw: Works
Topolski, Feliks 761, 774
Townsend, Ho
race 243
Townshend, Charles Uniacke 33, 36
Trebitsch, Siegfried: first meeting with Shaw 286; and Charlotte 286, 353; as Shaw’s translator 286–8, 290; with Shaws in Paris 353; in First World War 448, 515; and Jitta’s Atonement 516–18; visits Shaw in England 518–19, 730–1, 734; and interwar productions of Shaw plays 491, 530, 722–3, 729–30, 731; and filming of Pygmalion 707, 708; escapes from Nazi Germany 733; postwar visits to Shaw 775–6; mentioned 534; Shaw to 290, 291, 296, 354, 368, 379, 409, 439, 440, 453, 463, 484, 486–7, 633, 685, 687, 713, 716, 729, 730, 732, 744
Trebitsch, Tina 515, 733, 734
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm: at Her/His Majesty’s Theatre 190, 194, 302, 361; and The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet 378–9; praises Fanny’s First Play 408; and Pygmalion 434–5, 441–2, 443, 444, 445; mentioned 145
Trevelyan, (Sir) Charles (3rd Baronet) 248, 298; Shaw to 298–9
Trewin, J. C. 682–3
Trollope, Anthony 280, 670
Trotsky, Leon 614, 615–16, 619, 633
Troubetzkoy, Prince Paul 354, 550, 553, 580, 782
Truth 120
Tunney, Gene 604–6
Twentieth Century-Fox 708
Tyler, Thomas 79
Tynan, Kenneth 694
‘Uncommon Sense about the War’ see Shaw: Works
Uniacke Townshend & Co. 27, 32–3, 35–6, 46, 252
United States: Shaws in 659–65; see also New York
Unsocial Socialist, An see Shaw: Works
Unwin, T. Fisher (publisher) 58
Upward, Edward 632
Vaccination Inquirer 236
Vaisey, Mr Justice (Sir Harry) 795
Valency, Maurice 314–15, 524
Valera, Éamon de 1, 513, 777; Shaw to 811
Vanbrugh, Violet 517
Vandeleur, Colonel Crofton Moore 12, 13
Vandervelde, Lalla 577
Vedrenne, J. E. 310, 311, 338, 347–50, 365, 408; Shaw to 317
Vegetarian News 697
Vereeniging, Treaty of (1902) 282, 283
Versailles, Treaty of (1919) 482, 483–4, 732
Victoria, Queen 105, 117, 280, 291
Village Wooing see Shaw: Works
Vizetelly, Henry 121
Voltaire 646
Candide 645, 646
Voronoff, Serge 629
Voss, Richard: Alexandra 147, 196
Wagner, Richard 33, 124, 133, 139, 195, 345–6, 359, 453; see also The Perfect Wagnerite
Walden, (Lord) Howard de 407
Walker, Emery, Shaw to 643
Walkley, A. B. 161, 336, 384, 434, 464, 491
Wallas, Ada (née Radford) 250, 253
Wallas, Graham 103, 172, 229, 243, 244, 248, 250, 253, 262, 263, 328; Shaw to 154, 262
Walsh, Gordon 804
Walters, Reverend Ensor 232; Shaw to 368, 633
Walters, Margaret 557–8
Walton, William 767
Ward, Mrs Humphry 397
Wardell, Charles 196, 197
Wardle, Irving 313, 521, 527, 575, 682
Wardrop, John 757–9, 760, 761
Warner, Harry 713
Warner, Marina 522
Warner, Sylvia Townsend 645
Mr Fortune’s Maggot 645
Warner Brothers 705
Warren, (Sir) Charles 105
Watts, G. F. 194, 196, 587
Webb, Beatrice (née Potter): childhood 150; love for Joseph Chamberlain 150; meets Sidney Webb 151; becomes ‘a Socialist’ 151; marriage 151; relationship with Shaw 152; and pleasures of cycling 152, 153; puts Webb to work 154; addiction to fasting 154; and Fabian Society 154; and Vivie Warren 152, 165; and London School of Economics 229, 230; desires to see Shaw married 238–9; and Shaw and Bertha Newcombe 239, 240, 241, 242; makes friends with Charlotte 242–3, 244; ‘uneasy’ about Shaw and Charlotte 245, 247, 248; revels in Trade Unionism 247; supports Lord Rosebery 283; and Wells’s recruitment into Fabian Society 328, 334, 335; and Fabian policy of permeation 321; and Balfour 322; on Shaw’s failure to win St Pancras 285; and Fabian boom 323; takes Balfour to John Bull’s Other Island 311; as model for Major Barbara 312; appointed to Royal Commission on Poor Law 320, 398; suspicious of Fabian popularity 393; and Wells’s affair with Amber Reeves 396–7; recants views on women’s suffrage 397–8; drafts Minority Report 398–400; and New Statesman 431–2, 433; and Shaw’s affair with Mrs Patrick Campbell 433; irritated by Charlotte 460–1; and ‘Bloomsbury’ 489–90; and Casement 470; on better terms with Charlotte 552, 564; disapproves of Cliveden Set 564, 565; and Soviet communism 626, 629–31; at On the Rocks 685; last meetings with the Shaws 695, 696, 698–9; death 749; mentioned 166, 252, 358, 534, 573, 639, 704, 736; Shaw to 262, 264, 283, 292, 315–16, 356, 412, 421, 431, 454, 464, 493, 602, 697, 700, 703, 733, 738, 739, 747
diary entries and views on: Adventures of the Black Girl... 672
The Apple Cart 574, 575
Annie Besant 99–100
Boer War 281
Apsley Cherry-Garrard 539
Harley Granville-Barker 308–9, 340
‘In Good King Charles’s Golden Days’ 725–6
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide 561
Labour Party (1918) 481
T. E. Lawrence 527
Lillah McCarthy 340
Major Barbara 319; film 742
Man and Superman 296
The Millionairess 567, 693
Oswald Mosley 541, 543
Shaw 13, 152, 238, 268, 321, 410, 433, 434, 542, 543–4, 567, 695, 738
Charlotte Shaw 242–3, 268
Wells 328, 329
Webb, Sidney (Lord Passfìeld): friendship with Shaw 101–2; key figure in Fabian Society 102–3, 106; as Shaw’s political mentor 108; distressed by Shaw’s Ibsen paper 113; on holiday with Shaw 124, 150; courtship and marriage 150, 151; summers at Argoed 152, 153, 250; retires from Colonial Office 154; assists Shaw with A Plan of Campaign for Labor 154–5, and Arms and the Man 170; present at first night 172; on London County Council 230, 231; establishes London School of Economics 229–30; his marriage 238, 244–5, 247, 248; writes Industrial Democracy and Problems of Modern Industry with Beatrice 239; administers Charlotte’s trust fund 261; political views 281, 321, 323, 325; publishes ‘Lord Rosebery’s Escape...’ 283–4, 321; brings out The Education Muddle and the Way Out 322–3; and Wells 328, 330, 331, 395; at first Summer School 358; and Fabian crusade 399, 400; launches New Statesman 431–2, 433; pacifist views 445; and ‘Bloomsbury’ 489–90; President of Board of Trade 540; on MacDonald 573; and Soviet communism 619, 629–31, 650; writes Soviet Communism... with Beatrice 647, 696; ‘unbroken comradeship’ with Shaws 695, 696, 698–9; accepts money from Shaw 696; has stroke 696–7; and Charlotte’s will 781, 782, 795; death 778; mentioned 95, 166, 242, 243, 252, 398, 434, 534, 574, 733, 777; Shaw to 101, 265, 326, 747, 749, 778
Week, The 564
Weintraub, Stanley 690, 732
Weiss, Samuel 730
Welch, James 159
Weldon, Bishop (of Woolwich) 444
Wells, H. G.: as theatre critic for Pall Mall Gazette 327; meets Shaw 327; interests Webbs 328; and Fabian Society 325, 327–35; with Shaw 329, 332, 344; his sexual attraction 371, 393–4; Shaw tells of near-drowning 392; Fabian support for 392–3, 399, 401; affairs 394, 395, 396–7; resigns from Fabian Society 395–6, 397; on Androcles 411; on Shaw’s wartime views 453, 459; on Russian Revolution 614; and wife’s death 602–3, 604; on Major Barbara 743; obituary of Shaw 600, 604; death 604; will 794; mentioned 225, 336, 355, 390, 450, 597, 611, 777; Shaw to 15, 374, 387, 454 Ann Veronica 396
Anticipations 328
Kipps 329
A Modern Utopia 329
The New Machiavelli 399
A Short History of the World 704
Wells, Jane 394, 396, 602–3, 604; Maud Reeves to 334–5
West, Mae 765
West, (Dame) Rebecca 420, 457–8
Westminster Gazette 491
What I Really Wrote about the War see Shaw: Works
Wheeler, Margaret 779–81
Whelen, Frederick 261
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 84, 85, 184, 267 Ten O’Clock Lecture 84
Whitcroft, Ellen 5–6, 10–11, 27
Whitcroft, John 4
White, Amber (née Reeves) 394, 396, 397
White, Arnold 47
White, Blanco 396, 397
Why She Would Not see Shaw: Works
Wicksteed, Philip 103–4; Shaw to 260
Widowers’ Houses see Shaw: Works
Wife and Citizen 772
Wilde, Lady 60, 593
Ancient Legends of Ireland 593
Wilde, Oscar: on London 42; writes for Pall Mall Gazette 116, 119; congratulates Shaw on Widowers’ Houses 161; Harris’s biography 580, 596; and Shaw 592–6; his Celtic School 595, 598, 600; mentioned 46, 85, 86, 172, 329
De Profundis (masterful comedy) 595
An Ideal Husband 593–4
The Importance of Being Earnest 217–18, 219, 594,786
The Soul of Man Under Socialism 184, 594
A Woman of No Importance 595
Wilde, (Sir) William 592–3
Wilder, Thornton 605 Wilson, A. N. 637
Wilson, Arthur 104
Wilson, Charlotte 104
Wilson, (Sir) David 805, 806
Wilson, Edmund 528, 569, 575, 663, 664, 665, 690,770
Wilson, John Dover 524
Wilson, President Woodrow 482, 483, 484, 526
Winsten, Christopher 761
Winsten, Clare 354, 760, 762, 763
Winsten, Stephen 760, 761, 763, 777; Shaw to 17
Days with Bernard Shaw 761
G.B.S 90 777
Women’s Suffrage Movement 382
Woolcott, Alexander 528, 639
Woolf, Leonard 336, 393, 432, 458, 489–90, 613–14, 651, 735, 736
International Government 458
Woolf, Virginia 401, 460, 489–90, 603, 604, 694, 695, 736
A Room of One’s Own 786
Workman’s Times 110
Bernard Shaw Page 122
